Captain Comics: Hellfire Gala keeping Marvel superheroes, readers on their toes

The party’s over. Now comes the hangover. (Warning! Many spoilers ahead for recent issues of Marvel’s X-Men titles!) The party in question is the Hellfire Gala, a high-fashion, elites-only soiree hosted by Marvel’s mutants on the sentient mutant island Krakoa, based on the famous Met Gala. In a stunning show of Marvel’s confidence in the narrative, “Hellfire Gala” ran through all of the publisher’s 12 monthly X-Men titles in June, plus the 48-page “Planet-Size X-Men” one-shot. And in so doing, changed the status quo of the entire Marvel superhero line. Before I explain that, though, I need to ...